Build Shape Map Visual - Emissions Per Capita (Tonnes Per Person) 7

5. Emissions By Year: We will be building No 5 of the below dashboard:


The below screenshot shows what is expected to be built after following the steps below:

Use the GIF below to add the Shape Map


Format shape map - Instructions and screenshots are below:


1.    Click on the format tab

2.    Click on General

3.    Adjust X position to 839

4.    Adjust Y position to 168

5.    Adjust Width to 440

6.    Adjust Height to 277

7.    Click on data color

8.    Turn Diverging "On"

9.    Change Minimum color to #E6E6E6 by clicking on it ---> More colors--> Copy and paste #E6E6E6

10. Change Center color to #F0E199

11. Change Maximum color to #E68FBF

12. Insert 8 for Minimum

13. Insert 16 for Center

14.Insert 32 for Maximum

15.Turn Title "On"

16.Change Text to Emissions Per Capita - Tonnes Per Person

17.Change font color to White

18.Change background color to #666666

19.Change Alignment to Center

20.Change Text size to 9

Title Font is Segoe UI Semibold

                                                    


After all the format, you will notice that some countries are greyed out, this is because there is a mismatch of name between our data and the shape map. For example; United States in our data is United States of America in the Shape Map. 



Repeat the same steps for the following countries and for all tables that have Country columns: GHG Emissions table, World Population  table and Continent_Country tables.

After all countries should have been populated, go to format tab, click on Default color, click on show, and turn "off" to turn off regions/countries not in our data.

To create Legend for our Shape Map,  Copy the section with the diverging color as shown below, save on your computer. Go to Insert and click on Image to bring in the image, resize and drag it to right bottom part of the Map visual


Copy the legend and save the legend                       Position for the Legend:

                                                             


To create low-high as shown below, insert a text box, type in Low and High as shown below and drag it below the legend

 

    


Drag it to the visual and resize as follows;


You should have the below screenshot after using the steps above.





How to create and format visual To learn more about creating shape map visualizations, click the link below: 


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/desktop-shape-map